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Lucinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 09:41 PM
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Around the World Via a Day's Worth of Food
Edited on Sat Dec-18-10 09:43 PM by Lucinda
Really interesting 16 count photo essay of people around the world and what they ate on the specific day:

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2037749_2219823,00.html
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pengillian101 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-10 01:58 AM
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1.  Really interesting 16 count photo essay of people around the world and what they ate on the speci


Really interesting 16 count photo essay of people around the world and what they ate on the specific day:

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2037749_2219823,00.html

Thanks so much for posting that.
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Lucinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-10 02:00 AM
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2. You are very welcome!
It was fascinating to me..But i'm geeky that way. :P
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pengillian101 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-10 02:20 AM
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3.  Really interesting 16 count photo essay of people around the world and what they ate on the spe
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Lucinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-10 02:45 AM
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4. I went to the main website and saw a shot of her in a grocery store
http://www.menzelphoto.com/stories/fullstory.php?folder=MCChinaWIE

It was so odd after the other shot. It made me really want to know her story.
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pengillian101 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-10 01:41 AM
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12. That was really weird.
What a contrast.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-10 04:09 PM
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8. That's fascinating. While the African woman's diet was wretched
Edited on Sun Dec-19-10 04:10 PM by Warpy
in the sameness of sour milk and cornmeal mush, it obviously supplies her with adequate calories and nutrition (with native fruits and/or veg) to keep her weight and energy up.

The fat guy's diet was excellent.

The thinner mall worker had the only wretchedly bad diet in the bunch. She's not going to stay thin for much longer eating that kind of shite.

A lot of the ethnic diets made me drool.
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pengillian101 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-10 12:53 AM
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9. She's not going to stay thin for much longer eating that kind of shite.
Edited on Tue Dec-21-10 12:59 AM by pengillian101
No kidding!

(The only thing is, being that it's winter in MN, most all of us Minnesotans put a cold-weather survival layer of fat on in the winter.) :-)

Edit - delete photo.

Reason for edit - copyright - this is for sale in book form.
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Lucinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-10 01:08 AM
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10. Made me sad when I read she ate that way because of economics
It was cheaper to eat fast food, and she used to bring a healthy lunch when she had more hours :(
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trud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-10 06:30 AM
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5. I'm astonished
at how many calories the healthy-weight people in that group are taking in. It makes me think the U.S.'s obesity problem is not overeating and not junk food, but the very sedentary lifestyle.
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-10 10:53 AM
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6. It is that, but also look at the kinds of foods they ate...
all fresh, whole foods nothing pre-processed with artificial, unpronounceable ingredients. That makes a big difference, too.
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Lucinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-10 02:04 PM
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7. Yep...and I agree with what hippywife says too
Activity and the type of food consumed matter...Thought it was fascinating. I'd love to see the whole book...I think it is 80 stories.
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pengillian101 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-10 01:16 AM
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11. I agree!
Edited on Tue Dec-21-10 01:17 AM by pengillian101
"at how many calories the healthy-weight people in that group are taking in. It makes me think the U.S.'s obesity problem is not overeating and not junk food, but the very sedentary lifestyle."

How true.

Especially in the winter I put on 20 pounds, because of just sitting around. Come new year's resolutions, I'm going to get back to an exercise program. I am such a slug. :-(

Hope you are well. What'cha doing for the holiday season? We are having a seafood feast - just the two of us. Lobster (tails only!) humongous shrimp (12-15 count per pound) and crab claws.

Of course, everything is frozen. The crab claws are cooked, the other two are raw frozen. So, I'm thinking how to cook, so everything is done at the same time. Any ideas? Lobstergram has a great-sounding video to bake the tails.

http://www.livelob.com/Store/Product.aspx?ID=LOBSTERTAILS

Any thoughts? :hi:
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pengillian101 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-10 04:02 AM
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13. PS - I'm thinking of a chowder, bisque or like that...
for the leftovers. Recipes, anyone?

I neglected to say we don't do gifts anymore but share our money at the local Foodshelf. The most local one for some reason just quit. Next town over gets our donations.

This seafood is just a private treat for the two of us.
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